Pressing-cloth.



R. BASS. PRESSING CL'OTH.

APPLICATlON FILED JUNE?, I9I5.

ed Nov.

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PRESSING-CLOTH.

Specifioation of Letters Patent.

Paa-;need Nov. ,2, 1915.

fnppieafion med .tune 7, 1915. seria No. 32,623. i

T o all-'whom it mag/. concern:

` Be it known thatI, RUBIN BAss, a citizen of the ;United States, 'residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New 7 York, ;have invented''new and" useful Improvements in 'Pressing-Cloths, of 4which the following is a specifica'tion.l The' general ob `e`ct of this invention is to 'prolong the life of pi-;e's'sing lcloths,l usually used in tailoring estalfllishments, so that a material reductien in savings of both the cloth ;'and the expense incident to the purchasethereof may be effected. And to these .ends the invention resides in providing'4 the textile pressing cloth with ajmeans for protecting the 'cloth from direct contact with the pressing iron. r

Other objects will appear and-be better understood from that'embodiment of my ini vention`=`of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in which z-t- Figure 1, is a top plan View of my inven- 'tion wit parts shown broken away for the sake' of learness, and, Fig. 2, isa cross sec- :tion'al ew taken on' the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, with ;he parts shownseparated.

As shown in the`drawings the cloth is formed of'a body of textile material 1, and

vent 'direct contact of the body with 'the .pressing iron.

In the present instance the 'protecting elements lare'shown in the form of a ply of asbestos fabric '2, and a reticulated bodyT 3. The asbestos is superimposed -on the body 1 and is permanently attached thereto by having the edges ofthe body and asbestos bound with -a tatpe 4 and secured to the body and asbestos by a row of stitching 5. By the 'employment of a plybf heat insulatngmaterial such, for instance, as. asbestos, 1t is obvious that the textile material is prevented from ecoming scorched and damaged, which wo d occur if direct contact between the pressing iron and body were permtted. In instances where it is desired to prevent the scorching of the asbestos and the ad, hering of the fibers thereof to the pressing .'iron, I employ the guard plate or body 3 which in the present instance is .shown in the form-.of a thin sheet of perforat'ed flexible iso ' the bqdy bytneans-of screws 7 and thumb protecting elements arranged so as' top'r'emetal superimposed on the ply of asbestos 2 and conveniently secured thereto and to.

nuts 8 whichscrews pass through a flexible i metallic frame 9 arranged on the lower sur-l face and on the margin of thebody 1 and through openings 10 in the bodv l 'and asbestos 2 and through elongated openings in the guard plate or body In use the material to be pressed is first dampened by sponging or otherwise, and the pressing cloth is then laid thereover. The hot ronis then applied to the guard in the usual manner, the heat from the iron passing'through the perforations,'asbestos and body into the cloth to be pressed, thus effecting the drying of the same as is done by the usual pressing operation. By the provision of. the elongated openings 11 in the guard, it is obvious that any tendency ofv the guard to buckle, due to the friction between the guard and the asbestos being less than the friction between the material being pressed and the body, will be compensated for `by permitting the guard to slide over the surface of the asbestos during the operation 'of pressing. What Icla'in as new is :-v

1. A pressing clothcomprising a body of textile material and means superimposed on the' cloth and attached thereto for protecting the textile material from direct contact with the heating iro'n', said means being formed of material having greater heat resistin properties than said body.

2. pressing cloth comprising a body of f textile material and means superimposed on the cloth and attached thereto for protecting the textile material from direct contact with the heating iron, said means including a posed on the cloth and 'attached thereto for protecting the textile material, a guard formed of athin sheet of `perforated flexible lmetal sperimposed oi the ply of asbestos and means for detachably connecting the metallic sheet to the body and ply of asbestos. 1

5. A pressing'cloth compris'ing a bodv of '4 f i LAW-,tee

- textile material, a ply of asbestos supermconnecting thev metallic sheet and atta'chng posed on the cloth and. attached thereto for. frame to the body and ply of asbestos. 10 protecting the textile material, a guard In testimonywhereof I affix my signature formed of a thin sheet of perfo'ated fiexble in presence of two Witnesses.

metal superi'mpose on the ply of asbe'sto's,. A RUBIN BASS.

an attachng frame arranged on the1owe- VVtnesses: surface of the marginal edges of the body of K J. A; DONEGAN,

textile material and means :for detachably ANNA V. Dom. 

